Explain the use of the greater-sign hack...

[JohnT]

If you put a greater-than sign in your post, all the following text disappears. It's still there upon editing, but in the thread display, the text is missing.

Go ahead, try

[JohnT]

Er, as somebody reminded me, it's the "Less-than" sign. Damn you Ogie Oglethorpe!

WTF do I know? If I want math done, I'll have one of my minions do it. Like Ogie.

[Combat Ingrid]

fascinat

[Dauphin]

What<>are<>you talking about?

[JohnT]

If you put a "less than" sign in the middle of your post, it makes your

[JohnT]

... words invisible.

[Jonny]

I think it's because the forum interprets the less than sign as the beginning of an HTML tag. Use a compimenting greater than sign like Dauphin and there's no problem.

[JohnT]

Well, there goes all those math posts I've been carefully crafting. Now noone will believe me about my 7 line proof to Fermat's last theorem.

[Alex]

hey, this is coo

[St Leo]

You should be using &gt; in place of a > and &lt; in place of a <.

[JohnT]

Now why would I want to do that when the actual symbols are right on my keyboard?

Computer Sense &lt Common Sense.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by JohnT
If you put a "less than" sign in the middle of your post, it makes your

[Dis]

test:


edit: it worked!. Good thing. I called someone a homo in there. You can find it by going to page source.

[Verto]

This is so

[Zoid]

UR ALL